If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Genuine happiness comes from having developed basic human qualities, such as attention, emotional balance, and generosity.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

The practice is like peeling an onion. Layer after layer of delusion is removed through continuous mindfulness.

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

The Buddha's path is not about becoming somebody different but about becoming more and more who you really are.

The path to enlightenment is not a path at all. It is a realization that where you are is where you have always been.

When we develop patience, we find that we develop a reserve of calm and tranquility.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

The great gift of meditation is that it returns us to the simplicity of our own being.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

Equanimity is not indifference. It is the balanced mind that sees things clearly without reaction.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening right now, without wishing it were different.

The mind is like a room with many windows. Open them all and let the fresh air in.

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

The cultivation of loving-kindness is the thread that runs through all Buddhist teachings.

When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love.